The international summer school for observing, assimilating and forecasting the ocean is a two week program offered to early career scientists, professionals and students on the current state of the art in operational oceanography and related advances in the ocean sciences. The course curriculum will include topics covering the leading edge science in ocean observing systems, as well as the latest methods and techniques for analysis, data assimilation and ocean modelling. Lectures will be given by leading experts in these fields including:

• Harley Hurlburt - NRL, Stennis Space Center, USA
• Eric Chassignet - Florida State University, COAPS, USA
• Magdelena Balmaseda - ECMWF, UK
• Pierre Brasseur - CNRS/LEGI, Genoble, France
• Pierre-Yves Le Traon - Ifremer, France
• Trevor McDougall - CSIRO, Australia

The summer school is sponsored by the Bureau of Meteorology, CSIRO, NOAA, IOC-Perth and UWA and will be held in Perth, Western Australia in January 2010.

 http://bom.gov.au/bluelink/summerschool/